My previous article regarding dreams and how they’ve influenced my life started the same way I’d like to start this one: It has been an age-old debate as to what exactly dreams are.
Many questions have arisen on the topic, and dreams are filled with so much speculative history that it has become a concept of wondrous intrigue. Throughout documented time, dreams have been revered, feared, judged, and interpreted.
Entire careers have been created for the purpose of understanding dreams, and entire lives have been spent driven toward answering the question: what are dreams and how can they help us?
I’ve spoken to a lot of people about their dreams from an analytical perspective. Every single person I’ve talked to rarely experiences recurring settings in dreams, but there’s always one dream, and it’s always one aspect of each person’s dream which is consistent: the feeling masked behind the setting.
Sure, the specific setting may change in each recurrence of the dream, but the person dreaming always knows it’s the same place.
Each time she dreams of this place there is something highly relevant to a stressful part of her life, something which she needs to think through that ultimately helps her through whatever hardship she is facing.
My sanctuary is a palace with hundreds of rooms and off chutes – skyways to separate buildings, and a racetrack for a driveway.
After a lot of thought and research into this topic, I’ve come to the conclusion that dream sanctuary is a representation of our subconscious mind. The best example I have out of all of the sanctuaries I’ve discovered is my own, the palace.
Within this palace, there are many locked doors, many things which my subconscious knows my waking mind is not prepared to accept or face.
Also, there are many levels, many buildings, and the external influences which can alter the layout of this palace. It is so vast that I could never imagine exploring all of it, even if I was dreaming all of every day, but every room and hallway seems to hold significance.
I’m 26 years old and have only dreamed with myself in this setting on 4 occasions, but each time was a significant part in my life, and each time, reflecting upon the dream helped me to get through a particularly hard time.
Aside from the feeling of familiarity and significance, these dreams can be recognized by how vivid they are, and how well we remember them the next day.
That is because our subconscious construct represented in a dream state is just that, a viewport into our own minds, and at a time that our minds “want” our conscious selves to remember.
I do believe that about 80% of our dreams are significant and that dreams are entirely based in the subconscious realm, sometimes even to the extent of bringing the astral realm into our perspective.
Our logical minds have a tendency of seeing what we think we want to see and creating justifications to believe what we think we want to believe – as such, our own analysis of our dreams may very well be completely wrong and should not be acted on, only speculated about.
I have warned many people of the issues which acting on personal analysis could create, and absolutely do NOT want any of my readers thinking they’re qualified to act on what they interpret their dreams to mean.
Only use them and what they show you for speculative figuring and leave any conclusions you reach as a part of your overall view on reality, but not a driving factor.
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This is a very interesting perspective on this topic. What is even more interesting is you and I have the same dream "sanctuary". The Palace has secret passages and a ton of huge rooms. Everytime I dream of this place during a significant part of my life, it is like I find a new part of this huge palace. I go through all the rooms I remember from previous dreams, and then find a secret passage like a doorway in the ceiling, and then it kind of ends? Lol
I actually have two places that reoccur in my dreams and the layout doesn't change much. The first is a warehouse and each time I'm dreaming of it I'm actually trying to steal something. It's never the same thing, once it was a remote control car(not anything I've ever had an interest in) and another time it was guns in a crate like you'd see in an Indian Jones movie, as examples.
The other is similar but different to my childhood home. My early childhood was spent living in a trailer park and the dream setting is very similar to this trailer park, but the mobile homes almost seem more substantial or permanent than actual mobile homes. It's also surrounded by much more wildlife and trees than the trailer park I grew up in, and sometimes there is a viney looking doorway or gate to the forest.
What do you think about having multiple “sanctuaries” I have quite a few places I re-visit in dreams, one is of a house with a room that is absolutely terrifying and I can never go in it. Curious to know thoughts.
Hi there! I'm almost 24 (in two weeks) I found this article because I am trying to figure out why I keep going back to the same planet and city for the past three nights in a row. Kinda driving me batty. I have had reoccurring settings before, this place I've been to before but I was in a different part of the planet. Also have been in the Galaxy on a space ship too but we always port at the same planet. Just trying to figure out why this is happening! Is my dream sanctuary a different planet? It feels so real when I'm there.
i've talked to my friends about this specific place in my dreams that reoccured maybe two times, perhaps it had a meaning or interpretation of some sort but i wasn't really sure. this place had a much of a strange setting, i always firstly woke up on top of a bunkbed in a room, i remember blood covered my sheets at the second time it happened. i get out of the room to discover that i'm in some sort of island resort that was pretty much always raining and thundering. it had this dock and everything, i remember this one time i even thought about buying my cousin this one toy that one of the vendors there sold. so skip to some parts, it shifts to this setting, probably still the same place cause it was raining and thundering and all. but it goes to this one kind of fancy dinner restaurant place? it had chandleirs and all that, there were waiters and everything. i remember this one area where all the stock wine glasses were still. and the dream ends there pretty much. anyone have their interpretations for this? been bugging me since, felt something with that place of some sort.